Possible Climate Change/Variability and Human Impacts, Vulnerability of African Drought Prone Regions, its Water Resources and Capacity Building

(1) U of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (tgan@ualberta.ca), (2) United Nation University (UNU-FLORES), Dresden, Germany, (3) School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, (4) Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore , (5) Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, (6) Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, Technische Universität München, München, Germany, (7) Hydrology and River Basin Management, Technische Universität München, München, Germany, (8) Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Aalto University School of Engineering, Aalto, Finland

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